LTT to UTEP

In announcing a handful of additions to its roster this week, UTEP revealed that Tuley-Tillman is now officially a Miner. As the offensive tackle comes to El Paso as a graduate transfer, he’ll be eligible to play for the Conference USA school in 2017.

Patrick Kugler's father is the head coach at UTEP. I am guessing that maybe helped make the connection. They probably knew each other from his time at Michigan especially considering Kugler and Tuley-Tillman are both OL from the same recruiting class in 2013.

When I saw the title of this thread, that's the only thing that made sense in terms of a connection. Otherwise, it's a pretty obscure destination for him, or at least more obscure than the sorts of schools I would have guessed he would go. In any case, hopefully it works out for him.

Just moved to El Paso, ready to adopt UTEP as my other "cheer for the little guy" school right along with EMU. Excited to have the second oldest bowl game so close by. It's no NY6 game, but often gets one those hyped Pac12 teams that didn't live up to snuff like USC or Stanford.

Lived there for 5 years in the mid-late 2000's. Can't speak to what it's like now...but wasn't too bad back then. Met my wife there, great food, etc... Just need to resist the urge to venture across the border to J-Town.